Looking Quote by John Wilson

Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the…

— bell hooks

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough…

— Poppy Z. Brite

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are…

— Siri Hustvedt

We've learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P.…

— Kevin Young

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when…

— Anonymous

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I…

— Michael Redhill

I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it's probably one of the reasons…

— John Scalzi

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

— S. E. Hinton

Renowned people from all fields receive unnecessary flak so often. Anonymity is misused, and it is a terrible thing to want to break somebody's…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

“What makes an author write under a different name ? Well, some may actually be criminals on the run, looking to make a bit…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

— Jaron Lanier

The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an…

— Ashwin Sanghi